Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Month: January 2011
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Blacks and Native Americans have deep ties Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-11-18 Manny Otiko, Our Weekly Contributor November is Native Heritage month There is an old joke in the Black community about women attributing long hair to having “Indian blood” in their family. But like all jokes, there is an…
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Phil Wilkes Fixico — a True Native Son L. A. Watts Times 2010-03-11 Darlene Donloe, Contributing Writer Phil Wilkes Fixico’s life is more dramatic than virtually any soap opera. It took him about 52 years to find out who he was after growing up in what he calls a “web of lies.” His intriguing story…
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This is a story of two hidden identities.
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The Seminole Freedmen: A History University of Oklahoma Press 2007 480 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138657 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles Captures the distinct identity and history of the Seminole maroons Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique…
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We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community [Book Review] Drumlummon Views: the Online Journal of Montana Arts & Culture Volume 1, Numbers 1-2, (Spring/Summer 2006) pages 237-240 Nicholas C. P. Vrooman Martha Harroun Foster, We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006.…
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Was Your Mama Mulatto? Notes toward a Theory of Racialized Sexuality in Gayl Jones’s “Corregidora” and Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” Callaloo Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer, 2004) pages 768-787 E-ISSN: 1080-6512, Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2004.0136 Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora (1975)…
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We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community University of Oklahoma Press 2006 304 pages 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 8 b&w illus., 5 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780806137056 Martha Harroun Foster, Associate Professor of History Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent,…
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The Quadroon Girl Poems on Slavery 1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Provided by the Maine Historical Society The Slaver in the broad lagoon Lay moored with idle sail; He waited for the rising moon, And for the evening gale. Under the shore his boat was tied, And all her listless crew Watched…
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Race, the Jamaican Body and Eugenics/Genomics: An Autobiographic Mediation Auto/Biography and Mediation 2010 pages 39-55 Edited by: Alfred Hornung, Professor of English and American Studies Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Written by: Eve Hawthorne, Professor of History Howard University Paul Vanouse, Associate Professor of Visual Studies The State University of New York, Buffalo Caribbean bodies are…